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Magnolia West wasn’t a good match up for Georgetown from the opening tip off until the final buzzer in Friday night’s Region III-5A area playoff game at Hearne. The Lady Mustangs were taller — three 6-1 starters — quicker, skilled, disciplined and on a mission after having […]

Georgetown’s Rhonda Farney and Magnolia West’s Sarah Simmons both have indicated that they are not  expecting anything other than a challenging encounter when their teams collide in a Region III-5A area playoff at 7 p.m. Friday in Hearne. Farney and her staff have had the Lady Mustangs […]

Monday’s 7 p.m. Class 5A girls bi-district game at Liberty Hill between District 18-5A champion Georgetown (22-10) and Marble Falls (14-18), the fourth-place team  from 17-5A, has the potential to be more than the stereotypical first-round battle between between a No. 1 and No. 4 seed. Finding […]

For the 29th consecutive season under head coach Rhonda Farney, the Georgetown Lady Eagles are headed to the UIL State Basketball Playoffs. Using a smothering defense to dominate East View, 45-18, on Tuesday night, the Lady Eagles (22-10) completed an unbeaten 12-0 run to the District 18-5A […]

Theoretically, sub-varsity teams in athletics have the same purpose as the advancement through other educational levels and academic disciplines in a school system — sharpening individual skills to be successful and, if possible, developing winning attitudes to enhance the chance of producing or retaining a winning group […]

  After clinching the outright District 18-5A championship with a 50-45 overtime victory over Hutto in the Lady Hippos’ pond on Friday night, the 10th-ranked Georgetown Lady Eagles will face the fourth-place finisher in 17-5A, early next week in the bi-district round of the Class 5A state […]

      Tuesday was a special night for the Georgetown Lady Eagles.  They celebrated Senior Night with a 79-15 victory over Bastrop Cedar Creek at Eagle Gym and in so doing claimed no worse than a tie for the District 18-5A championship. It could have been […]

Success in athletics often comes down to the survival of the fittest with on-court intelligence and discipline figuring heavily in the outcome at crucial points in the contest. And so it was in the closing minutes of 14th-ranked Georgetown’s 35-34 victory over Manor in District 18-5A action […]

The 2010-2011 Georgetown Lady Eagles were the Class 5A state runners-up with a 33-4 record. They defeated Alief Elsik, 56-51, before losing to an Irving MacArthur team led by future Baylor standout Alexis Jones, 71-58, in the championship game of University Interscholastic League State Tournament at the […]

The front-running Georgetown Lady Eagles had Tuesday night off from District 18-5A competition as the 15th-ranked team enjoyed its second-round bye with an 8-0  mark in the seven-team alignment. However, East View and Manor posted victories that assured them of berths in the state playoffs along with […]